From: Chris Matrakidis <cmatraki AT eleceng DOT ucl DOT ac DOT uk>
Date: Thu, 8 May 97 14:37:32 BST
Message-Id: <29181.9705081337@baldrick>
To: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
Subject: Re: PE executable format
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Precedence: bulk

> Why not to chose ELF instead of PE? PE is a modification of COFF and a not 
> partiularily good one. ELF OTOH is well designed bottom-up and supported by 
> equally large number of utilities. 

The switch from coff to PE is a relatively small one.
The way I understand it, ELF support needs a lot more work.

However, if you want to run ELF executables under msdos,
http://www.planet.net/pjoshv/cross-elf.html may be useful.